CNG 100, Lot: 2262. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (23mm, 1.49 g). Contemporary imitation of a Circumscription Cross type (BMC v). Uncertain mint and moneyer. + T D : ΛEÐEΓSTΛИ RE (horizontal S), small cross pattée / VVONETYIΛMCΛΓF (ornamental O, T and F inverted), small cross pattée. Blunt,
Aethelstan 509 (same rev. die); SCBI 34 (BM), –; cf. North 671; cf. SCBC 1092. EF, edge chip. Very rare.